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  • 09 Dec 2020 20:55
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    Reply # 9417679 on 9414898
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    Anonymous wrote:

    Just completed another haulout for antifoul and rot repair. Needless to say I found more than expected or for that matter deal with properly.  The time has come to make the hard decision to retire Redwing next year.

    Sorry to hear that, Gary.  I assume the rot has got into the structural timbers, rather than just in the ply.  I assume you still have budgetary restraints, but you may find a suitable basic glass boat for a grand or so, sometimes less, one day if you are lucky, onto which you can transplant all the good gear from Redwing.  I see them come up from time to time.  Usually very run down and stripped out, but you have the rig, anchors etc.  If I see one I will let you know.  My new boat, Blue Moon, is a bit rough around the edges, but my bunk is dry and it sails.  Good enough for Moreton Bay anyway.  I'd rather not ride out a gale in the open ocean in this boat.  But then my old bones wouldn't like that either.  I am semi-retired from sailing now, spend a lot of time just anchored in Bums Bay, or mooching up the channels inside the Stradbroke Islands.  Wishing you good fortune. 
  • 09 Dec 2020 20:42
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    Reply # 9417664 on 9415960
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    Anonymous wrote:

    This doesn’t sound much fun, Gary.
    Just a thought; in case the deck and interior structure is good enough for another few years, how about glassing the hull? I don’t just mean adding a layer of two of glass (or whatever), but to build a light grp hull around the one you have.

    The other alternative is to find a decent vessel of the same size, which can take your present junkrig.
    I bet you have been thinking about this...

    Arne

    Hi Arne, i have thought about the idea of picking up a derigged  fibreglass hull but at present my partner is not keen on me doing that unless I have a job to pay for it and maintain it. I'm happy in my retirement. :)

    I am more inclined to go for something smaller, on a trailer maybe. I will probably try and sell my present rig. I have a bit of time to think about it.
  • 09 Dec 2020 09:27
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    Reply # 9415960 on 644008
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    This doesn’t sound much fun, Gary.
    Just a thought; in case the deck and interior structure is good enough for another few years, how about glassing the hull? I don’t just mean adding a layer of two of glass (or whatever), but to build a light grp hull around the one you have.

    The other alternative is to find a decent vessel of the same size, which can take your present junkrig.
    I bet you have been thinking about this...

    Arne


    Last modified: 09 Dec 2020 11:51 | Anonymous member (Administrator)
  • 08 Dec 2020 23:16
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    Reply # 9414898 on 644008
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    Just completed another haulout for antifoul and rot repair. Needless to say I found more than expected or for that matter deal with properly.  The time has come to make the hard decision to retire Redwing next year.

    Last modified: 08 Dec 2020 23:17 | Anonymous member
  • 05 Sep 2019 12:06
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    Reply # 7865054 on 7864880
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    Anonymous wrote:

    A few memorable trips I have made.

    In 1974 in Dilkusha, a 19 foot Itchen Ferry Gaff Cutter, Pill harbour on the Bristol Avon to Barry harbour, South Wales, 33 miles in 3 hours and 5 minutes, with a Bristol Channel spring ebb tide under me!!

    In 1995 in Arcady, modified Bruce Roberts Offshore 38 I built in California. Tied up at the back of Ventura Harbour to tied up at the back of Wilmington harbour, 78 miles in eight and a half hours. Log read to 11.5 knots and was pegged solid for over two hours crossing Santa Monica Bay in a mild 18 to 20 knot Santa Ana wind. Some south going current with me.

    In   1997 in Arcady, Isthmus Harbour, Catalina Island, to Angels Gate, San Pedro Harbour, in one hour fifty five minutes, 22 miles. A 65 foot trawler yacht we were catching up to suddenly expelled a huge cloud of black diesel smoke and we could no longer catch her!!

    In 2012 in Arcadian, Marsden Cove to 25 miles north west of the Three Kings, close reaching in 15 to 18 knots of wind, 203 miles in 26 hours.

    The trip down the Tweed River with Gary was very enjoyable and getting the transom out of the water in the lighter breezes definitely improved her speed, but I am not sure it was a full knot Gary!!

    All the best, David


    I  stand corrected, I was under the impression it was ....may be combined with the half knot through lifting the outboard out of the water?:)
  • 05 Sep 2019 07:37
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    Reply # 7864880 on 644008
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    A few memorable trips I have made.

    In 1974 in Dilkusha, a 19 foot Itchen Ferry Gaff Cutter, Pill harbour on the Bristol Avon to Barry harbour, South Wales, 33 miles in 3 hours and 5 minutes, with a Bristol Channel spring ebb tide under me!!

    In 1995 in Arcady, modified Bruce Roberts Offshore 38 I built in California. Tied up at the back of Ventura Harbour to tied up at the back of Wilmington harbour, 78 miles in eight and a half hours. Log read to 11.5 knots and was pegged solid for over two hours crossing Santa Monica Bay in a mild 18 to 20 knot Santa Ana wind. Some south going current with me.

    In   1997 in Arcady, Isthmus Harbour, Catalina Island, to Angels Gate, San Pedro Harbour, in one hour fifty five minutes, 22 miles. A 65 foot trawler yacht we were catching up to suddenly expelled a huge cloud of black diesel smoke and we could no longer catch her!!

    In 2012 in Arcadian, Marsden Cove to 25 miles north west of the Three Kings, close reaching in 15 to 18 knots of wind, 203 miles in 26 hours.

    The trip down the Tweed River with Gary was very enjoyable and getting the transom out of the water in the lighter breezes definitely improved her speed, but I am not sure it was a full knot Gary!!

    All the best, David

    Last modified: 05 Sep 2019 07:40 | Anonymous member
  • 04 Sep 2019 23:48
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    Reply # 7864307 on 644008
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    7.2 on gps, I don't have a log on the boat. Redwing is 24' 6" LOD.21' 6" on the waterline. 
  • 04 Sep 2019 09:57
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    Reply # 7863074 on 644008
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    That's nothing.  

    We reached 10.86 knots (GPS) at the weekend on our, whisper it, Bermudan rig Wayfarer, on a flat lake in a +20 knots gust of wind. Very loud and quite scary :-)

    I've gone faster, but that was on a large car ferry. :- (

    I don't know how the top dinghy sailors do that, and more, in 5 foot waves and stay upright while flying a spinnaker.  Some skill!


    7 knots+ is still a lot from a bigger boat though. 
  • 04 Sep 2019 08:15
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    Reply # 7863007 on 644008
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    Is that 7.4knts on the log or GPS?   My Coromandel managed over 9knts......on the GPS!
  • 03 Sep 2019 14:27
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    Reply # 7861495 on 644008
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